Alvin Wyckoff

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Alvin Wyckoff

Born July 3, 1877 · New York City, New York, USA

Died July 30, 1957 · aged 80

Alvin Wyckoff (July 3, 1877 – July 30, 1957) was an American cinematographer who worked on more than 80 films between 1914 and 1945. Several of Wyckoff's films had sequences filmed in the early Handschiegl Color Process, originally billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process". Wyckoff also worked with DeMille to develop the Lasky-lighting technique, which made selective lighting possible. From Wikipe…

Known For

The CheatThe Cheat · 1915
The Cheat
6.01915
MovieDrama
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
Male and FemaleMale and Female · 1919
Male and Female
6.41919
MovieAdventureDrama
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
The Mystery SquadronThe Mystery Squadron · 1933
The Mystery Squadron
6.51933
MovieActionMystery
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
Hell's AngelsHell's Angels · 1930
Hell's Angels
6.61930
MovieDramaWar
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
Joan the WomanJoan the Woman · 1916
Joan the Woman
5.71916
MovieHistoryDrama
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
The Night RideThe Night Ride · 1930
The Night Ride
9.01930
MovieDramaCrime
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
The Rose of the RanchoThe Rose of the Rancho · 1914
The Rose of the Rancho
4.01914
MovieRomanceWestern
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
If I Had a MillionIf I Had a Million · 1932
If I Had a Million
6.51932
MovieDramaComedy
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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Old Home WeekOld Home Week · 1925
Old Home Week
8.01925
MovieComedy
Tom Clark, the part owner of a luckless gas station in New York, returns to his place of birth for Old Home Week, posing as the millionaire president of the Amalgamated Oil Co. He is chosen as the orator for the homecoming banquet and given complete financial control over an oil well drilled in the town by Coleman and Barton, a pair of oily swindlers. Tom discovers that the well is a fake and has it connected secretly with the local reservoir. A wire from Tom's partner is intercepted, and Tom is exposed as a fraud. Coleman and Barton are about to leave town when Tom fakes a gusher and quickly sells the well back to the swindlers at a profit. The swindlers realize that they have been outsmarted, and their anger convinces the townspeople that Tom has acted in the best interests of the community. Tom is again the toast of the town, feted by its inhabitants and rewarded with the kisses of his sweetheart.

Cinematography